Thank you to everyone who applied for this year’s PNI inter-studio residencies. The selected artists are:
Sophie Carroll-Hunt
Viola Chiang
Conor Gallagher
Brian Giles
Comhghairdeas mór to all four artists! Please give the resident artists a warm welcome when they arrive in your studio later this year. Here is what the artists will be up to during their residencies:
Black Church Print Studio member Sophie Carroll-Hunt will be resident artist at Limerick Printmakers. Where she will work with text and image-based elements, combining handset type with polymer plates or hand-cut lino blocks, while exploring the physical qualities unique to letterpress. During this residency, I will develop a body of work consisting of experimental proofs for future reference within her practice and a small number of printed editions that result in a handmade zine.
Black Church Print Studio member Viola Chiang will be resident artist at Cork Printmakers. Her project during residency will be ‘Every object has a story. Each image is a fossil between time and light. Between different objects, to find out new vision, new narrative, create tales and tell stories.’ During the residency, Viola will work with different objects she finds and will connect them to build an unreadable artist book with etching and mezzotint. This residency will benefit her practice of storytelling and to allow her to discover more Irish tales.
Graphic Studio Dublin member Conor Gallagher will be resident artist at Black Church Print Studio, where he plans to make monoprints, woodcuts, risographs and carborundums using suitable found materials inspired by Dublin and its’ well known buildings.
Black Church Print Studio member Brian Giles will be resident artist at Graphic Studio Dublin to focus on developing new work using carborundum. Mainly a screen printer, Brian is interested in expanding his practice into an intaglio-based process. This residency will support an important step forward by helping him develop a new surface language through carborundum, and bring more physical texture and depth into the layered way he already works through print.
The PNI Inter-Studio residency has grown into a vital annual opportunity for studio members to immerse themselves in a new studio environment. In addition, the residency enriches the host studios, as it benefits from the diverse knowledge and creative practices brought by the visiting artists. This mutual exchange of skills and perspectives is an important objective of Print Network Ireland.
Viola Chiang Portrait
Brian Giles Portrait
Sophie Carroll-Hunt – Portrait
